[FFmpeg-devel] AAC experimental flag: the sequel

[Claudio Freire]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, here comes the discussion again.
>>
>> This time, the AAC encoder is in good shape. It's not perfect. I have
>> a list of known bugs to address that still has some issues, but I'm
>> not really certain whether they should block the flag's removal.
>>
>> The bugs will be addressed in time, but maybe the encoder is in good
>> enough shape as it is?
>
> IIUC, JBK responded at VDD 2015 to the question of for which types of
> files they don't use avcodec. He mentioned AAC due to some user's
> complaints about quality on certain files. This was likely referring
> to the decoder and not encoder. Nevertheless, I suggest a conversation
> with them (or other users) to obtain problematic files to test.

I'm always on the lookout for problematic files to add to my "test
samples" collection, so if anyone has one they should contact me in
private.

In fact fate needs a few more samples since most of the samples there
fail to trigger any of the bugs we've been working on of late.